Hednota longipalpella (Meyrick, 1879)
Pasture Webworm
 (previously known as Eromene longipalpella)
CRAMBINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Hednota longipalpella
(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)

The caterpillars of this species live in a shelter of foodplant leaves joined with silk. The caterpillars feed on nearly any species of:

  • Grass ( POACEAE ).

    Hednota longipalpella
    (Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

    The adult moths have forewings with a brown pattern, including an irregular truncated doubly outlined circle containing a figure '8'. The hindwings are pale brown.

    The species has been found over much of Australia, including :

  • Australian Capital Territory,
  • Victoria,
  • South Australia, and
  • Western Australia.

    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia,
    Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 66.

    Peter B. McQuillan, Jan A. Forrest, David Keane, & Roger Grund,
    Caterpillars, moths, and their plants of Southern Australia,
    Butterfly Conservation South Australia Inc., Adelaide (2019), p. 82.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera I: Crambites,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Series 1, Volume 3, Part 3 (1879), pp. 196-197.

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    (updated 15 June 2010, 2 April 2019)